Rearing You

I make no apologies

For the way I'm rearing you.

Nothing I'll ever do to you

Will be as tough or hard

As life, love, and the world

Will be on you later.

I'm rearing you in love

The best way I understand how to.

It's not ever easy, but it

Wasn't meant to be.

I can do it because my parents

Did the job the same way and

Because I'm here with you now.

It's a never ending labor of love

Preparing you for yours

And for the days when I'll not

Be around anymore.

Then all you will truly have

Are God, your sisters, each other,

And the way you were reared.